This patch builds new executable image to another pml4 structure and
only after everything is validated will current context be replaced.
This allows exec to fail "late" where previously it would panic the
kernel or kill the process. This allows graceful handling of exec
failures in userspace!
Also SYS_CREATE_DIR now uses correct relative path. It used to always
create files relative to root. And as no permission checks were tested,
file creation succeeded to root as long as path did not contain '/' :D
ELFs are now loaded as MemoryRegions so they don't need special handling
anywhere. This also allows file backed COW optimizations to work. This
was not the case before.
This patch removes now obsolete LoadableELF and unused ELF files from
LibElf.
I was loading program headers of both executable and interpreter but
that is incorrect. The interpreter will itself load the program headers
of the executable.
This patch implements posix_openpt() and ptsname()
grantpt() and unlockpt() are left in LibC as stubs, as posix_openpt
currently does all of the needed work.
Change Semaphore -> ThreadBlocker
This was not a semaphore, I just named it one because I didn't know
what semaphore was. I have meant to change this sooner, but it was in
no way urgent :D
Implement SMP events. Processors can now be sent SMP events through
IPIs. SMP events can be sent either to a single processor or broadcasted
to every processor.
PageTable::{map_page,map_range,unmap_page,unmap_range}() now send SMP
event to invalidate TLB caches for the changed pages.
Scheduler no longer uses a global run queue. Each processor has its own
scheduler that keeps track of the load on the processor. Once every
second schedulers do load balancing. Schedulers have no access to other
processors' schedulers, they just see approximate loads. If scheduler
decides that it has too much load, it will send a thread to another
processor through a SMP event.
Schedulers are currently run using the timer interrupt on BSB. This
should be not the case, and each processor should use its LAPIC timer
for interrupts. There is no reason to broadcast SMP event to all
processors when BSB gets timer interrupt.
Old scheduler only achieved 20% idle load on qemu. That was probably a
very inefficient implementation. This new scheduler seems to average
around 1% idle load. This is much closer to what I would expect. On my
own laptop idle load seems to be only around 0.5% on each processor.
realpath is implemented as a syscall. This is not really required but it
was the easiest way to get it working as there is already path
canonicalization at kernel level.
These are pretty much dummy functions in the kernel side. Only case that
is handled is SOL_SOCKET with SO_ERROR. This is hard coded to return no
error. Network stack is currently synchronous, so all errors are already
reported through synchronous network functions.
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